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While I was cleaning out my house, I found a framed copy of a column I wrote 20 years ago. It was done in the same style of the “Just for Today” articles that are often seen. A reader framed it and se...

A few years ago, I had never heard of AI. Now I’m surprised at how artificial intelligence has stormed into our lives. It’s a case of “ready or not, here I come.” For a while I listened to young men a...

A while back I kept seeing signs that said old age is not for sissies. I thought it was a silly sign. Maybe I was a bit too young to “get it” because it didn’t resonate with me. A few years have gone ...

My boss once told me one of my strengths was being decisive. When it came to work, that was always true. But it didn’t apply to everything. I was always financially conservative and was careful about ...

Sometimes I must think if I say something often enough times it will be true. One thing I have said repeatedly is that I will never move from my sweet little Florida bungalow. “The only way I will eve...

There was a time many years ago when finding a phone number was easy. We just looked in the local phone book. Now, many people only have cellphones, and there is no easy way to get those numbers. I ha...

Today I had to spend time doing something unpleasant but necessary. I had to update what I call my estate plan, but that’s just a more pleasant way of referring to making modifications to my final arr...

My friend Louis Sportelli was fond of saying we will be the same person in five years as we are today except for the people we meet and the book we read. While that quote originated with motivational ...

It was a cold, miserable day when our homeowners association had scheduled a talk called “Drowning in Stuff.” Regardless, I planned to go because I didn’t think many people would respond, and I wanted...

Never in my wildest thought would I have believed I would spend Christmas in a movie theater. But that’s exactly what happened. Along with my two daughters, son-in-law Greg and my three grandchildren...